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Question 24.
Saving Our Vanishing Heritage
The following passage is the foreword of a report from the Global
Heritage Fund, an international conservancy whose mission is to
protect, preserve, and sustain the most significant and endangered
cultural heritage sites in the developing world.
Saving Our Vanishing Heritage explores the challenges facing our
most significant and endangered archaeological and heritage sites in
the developing world—and what we can do to save them—before they are
lost forever.
Our focus on the developing world is driven by the large number of
important cultural heritage sites which exist in regions with little
capacity to safeguard their existence. In the first decade of the
21st century, we have lost or seriously impaired hundreds of our
most precious historic sites—the physical record of our human
civilization.
Vanishing surveys over 500 global heritage sites and highlights the
accelerating threats facing these cultural treasures. Many have
survived thousands of years, only to be lost in this generation—on
our watch.
With the critical review of 24 leading experts working in heritage
conservation and international development, this report surveys
hundreds of endangered global heritage sites and strives to identify
those most in need of immediate intervention, and what the global
community can do to save them.
Our primary goals of this report are:
to raise critically needed global awareness
to identify innovative technologies and solutions
to increase funding through private-public partnerships
Vanishing’s findings strongly suggest that the demise of our most
significant cultural heritage sites has become a global crisis, on
par with environmental destruction.
GHF surveyed over 1,600 accounts published between 2000 and 2009
concerning the state of conservation of hundreds of major sites in
the developing world.
In this report, GHF considered sites with the highest potential for
responsible development critical for the sustained preservation of
the site. GHF considers the scientific conservation of a site and
its potential for responsible development during our design and
planning process resulting in an integrated master plan and strategy
that goes well beyond traditional monument based approaches to
preservation. This report represents the first attempt to quantify
the value of heritage sites as global economic resources to help
achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Vanishing focuses on significant global heritage sites that have
high potential for future tourism and responsible development, but
the report’s findings and recommendations can and should be extended
to other realms of heritage preservation. Global heritage sites
generate extremely high economic asset values, with some worth
billions of dollars a year. These sites can help to greatly
diversify local economies beyond tourism and sustenance agriculture
reducing dependency and alleviating poverty.
Vanishing begins a global campaign to save the most important and
endangered heritage sites in the developing world.
How we as a global community act—or fail to act—in the coming years
will determine if we save our global heritage and can realize the
untapped economic opportunity these precious sites offer for global
development in the world's lowest-income communities and countries.
For Questions 1-12, please
select the correct definition for the given vocabulary word.
sublimity
a problem
wearing down
pureness
moving
conundrum
a problem
wearing down
pureness
moving
kinetic
a problem
wearing down
pureness
moving
lucidity
awareness
carefree
observable
pleading
sustenance
with hunger
nourishment
an opening
necessity
attrition
a problem
wearing down
pureness
moving
imperative
with hunger
nourishment
an opening
necessity
fistula
with hunger
nourishment
an opening
necessity
insouciant
awareness
carefree
observable
pleading
voraciously
with hunger
nourishment
an opening
necessity
empirical
awareness
carefree
observable
pleading
supplication
awareness
carefree
observable
pleading
Which is NOT a word type (of fewer than five letters) that should remain uncapitalized in the middle of titles?
articles
adverbs
conjunctions
prepositions
Which of the following titles has been written correctly?
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House.
“Treaty opens Border for Refugees’ Return”
“Poem on Returning to Dwell in the Country”
Muir’s Original Log Home For Builders and Buyers
When Pi says, “All my life I had only known part of her,” about Orange Juice, what does he mean?
He didn’t know that she could be ferocious.
He didn’t realize that she could be loving.
He didn’t think about her as an orangutan.
He didn’t imagine that she would defend him.
Why does Pi stop himself from attacking the hyena?
He knows it will die soon.
He is no match for the hyena.
He wants to die.
He sees Richard P.
What biological necessity for a stranded person becomes the most important thing to Pi in Ch. 49?
food
water
hygiene
shade
What is Pi using when he says, “like being afraid of splinters when trees are falling down (p.136), and what is he talking about?
simile; Richard P.
metaphor; lifeboat
irony; hunger
hyperbole; thirst
How does Pi manage to separate himself from Richard Parker, and why does he regret this?
He throws a bunch of food overboard and regrets it when he feels hungry.
He climbs inside the dead zebra carcass but has second thought because of the smell.
He builds a raft but is afraid once he’s away from the lifeboat.
He puts the hyena between himself and RP but is scared of the hyena.
Which of the following is NOT one of Pi’s abandoned plans for getting rid of Richard Parker?
poisoning
choking
electrocution
morphine shots
fire
stoning
Which sentence is written correctly?
Well known writers submit works like the article Salt on our Wounds to
the New Yorker a renowned magazine.
Well known writers submit works like the article "Salt on
our Wounds" to The New Yorker, a renowned magazine.
Well-known writers submit works like the article "Salt on
our Wounds" to the New Yorker, a renowned magazine.
Well-known writers submit works like the article "Salt on
Our Wounds" to The New Yorker, a renowned magazine.
What plan does Pi finally decide upon as the best way to dispose of Richard Parker?
Pi decides that the best way to dispose of Richard Parker is by waging a war of attrition. He wants to survive by letting Richard Parker waste away with no food and no water.
Pi decides that the best way to dispose of Richard Parker is by using a medical packet from the lifeboat to poison him. He wants to survive by killing Richard Parker and using bits of his body as bait.
Pi decides that the best way to dispose of Richard Parker is to get him to fight the hyena. He wants to survive by outlasting all of the other creatures on the lifeboat.
Pi decides that he cannot dispose of Richard Parker, so Pi must stay on his raft except when Richard Parker is asleep. He wants to survive by outsmarting Richard Parker while still accepting his own weaknesses.
Which paragraph follows grammar and punctuation rules to correctly answer the italicized questions below? Instead of accepting death by thirst, starvation, or at the paws of Richard Parker, what does Pi decide to do in both the short term and the long term? What do these decisions say about Pi as a person, and would you have reacted like Pi or differently in the same situation?
In both the short and the long terms Pi decides to fight for his own survival. In the short term Pi decides that he must put some distance between himself and Richard Parker. To accomplish this he builds a raft that is attached to the lifeboat but that provides some space between the tiger and himself. As a long term plan Pi decides to wage a war of attrition against the animal. The teen believes that if he deprives the beast of food and water it will eventually die. As the smarter and more resourceful of the two Pi (at first) believes that he will easily out-survive Richard Parker. I believe that these decisions are a testament not only to Pi’s resourcefulness but to his courageousness as well. Although he originally feels that he doesn’t have the physical and emotional strength to survive such adversity he finds the power within himself to fight for his life. In the same position God forbid I would hope that I would have the strength to rally rather than to simply give up. Surely Pi’s mettle is proven by his willingness to persevere.
In both the short and the long terms, Pi decides to fight for his own survival. In the short term, Pi decides that he must put some distance between himself and Richard Parker. To accomplish this, he builds a raft that is attached to the lifeboat but that provides some space between the tiger and himself. As a long term plan, Pi decides to wage a war of attrition against the animal. The teen believes that if he deprives the beast of food and water, it will eventually die. As the smarter and more resourceful of the two, Pi (at first) believes that he will easily out-survive Richard Parker. I believe that these decisions are a testament not only to Pi’s resourcefulness but to his courageousness as well. Although he originally feels that he doesn’t have the physical and emotional strength to survive such adversity, he finds the power within himself to fight for his life. In the same position, God forbid, I would hope that I would have the strength to rally rather than to simply give up. Surely, Pi’s mettle is proven by his willingness to persevere.
Instead of accepting death by thirst, starvation, or at the paws of Richard Parker, Pi decides in both the short term and the long term that he must terminate the life of the voracious tiger. In the short term, Pi must determine the best way to kill the tiger. In the long term, he must determine how to get rid of the tiger’s body. He decides to eliminate Richard Parker by using the contents of a medical packet. Pi has found the packet on the lifeboat, and now he will put the contents into a bowl of water for Richard Parker to drink. Since Pi cannot lift the heavy tiger to remove its body from the lifeboat, it is imperative that Pi butcher the tiger. Fortunately, Pi has also found a knife in a small compartment. Pi’s decisions show that he has a strong will to live and the intelligence to develop good plans. Honestly, I probably would not have reacted like Pi if I were in the same situation. Sadly, I believe I would have been overwhelmed and I would have died.
Instead of accepting death by thirst starvation, or at the paws of Richard Parker Pi decides in both the short term and the long term that he must terminate the life of the voracious tiger. In the short term Pi must determine the best way to kill the tiger. In the long term, he must determine how to get rid of the tiger’s body. He decides to eliminate Richard Parker by using the contents of a medical packet. Pi has found the packet on the lifeboat and now he will put the contents into a bowl of water for Richard Parker to drink. Since Pi cannot lift the heavy tiger to remove its body from the lifeboat it is imperative that Pi butcher the tiger. Fortunately Pi has also found a knife in a small compartment. Pi’s decisions show that he has a strong will to live and the intelligence to develop good plans. Honestly I probably would not have reacted like Pi if I were in the same situation. Sadly I believe I would have been overwhelmed and I would have died.
Which choice best summarizes the passage “Saving Our Vanishing Heritage”?
Many cultural heritage sites are in unstable regions whose governments are unable to effectively protect them.
Cultural heritage sites are the physical record of human civilization, and once they are lost, they are gone forever.
Many surveys have been taken to show the accelerating threats facing cultural heritage sites around the world.
Cultural heritage sites are disappearing all over the world, and it is culturally and economically important to protect them.
According to the passage “Saving Our Vanishing Heritage,” why does the project focus on the developing world in particular?
Some of the oldest cultural heritage sites in the world are located in developing countries.
Developing countries tend to have fewer resources available to protect cultural heritage sites.
Tourism tends to be more important to developing countries than it is to more economically developed countries.
The governments in developing countries are more eager for international aid than those in more developed countries.
In the passage “Saving Our Vanishing Heritage,” the author develops the idea of the value of cultural heritage sites by
explaining how old many of them are and how rapidly they are disappearing.
giving specific examples of cultural sites and describing the value they offer.
discussing their irreplaceability and their potential economic benefits for developing nations.
discussing the unstable regions in which many sites are located and the various threats the sites face.